creating with spirit & enthusiasm…often with great results

my Mary Jane experience~

Yesterday, my involvement in Mary Jane’s Farm Fair was wonderful, for many different reasons.

Having an opportunity to meet Mary Jane was a hi-light ~ bare feet and all :-). I walked up to her and said, with my hand held out for a handshake, “I would love to meet you!” She grabbed me for a great big farmgirl hug, and proceeded to make me feel like she also would love to meet me.

She’s a sweet, beautiful lady and I mentioned in my last post that I have loved everything I’ve seen that she has had a hand in. My favorite magazine is hers {thx. Mom for the gift-subscription}. Printed on recycled paper, just the ‘feel’ of it makes me smile. If you haven’t seen it, I highly encourage you to check it out. Every page is thoughtful and beautiful.

I have a lot of pictures to share. It’s hard to describe the beauty of the area. The backdrop was Mary Jane’s Barron’s Historic Flour Mill in Oakesdale, Washington.

There were a lot of great vendors although I would have enjoyed even more of the home-spun, earthy, vintage feel woven throughout the choice of vendors.

There were also many other great attractions to enjoy.

We enjoyed live animals, including horse rides…

and wonderful entertainment all day long.

darling girls enjoying their fresh-squeezed lemonade

One of the things I enjoyed so much about the day was that it was noticeably a family event.

I was so impressed with these beautiful, RED wheat grinders. {when I unload my vehicle 😦 I’ll find the address to link to these}

and I bartered some charms for several of these gorgeous hand made bars of soap.

I hope these pictures show what a wonderful day this was – such a great family-friendly way to celebrate the 4th of July.

What they don’t show is how much work is involved. I can’t even begin to describe with my own words how exhausting this job is. I always feel that I give the same response {sorry for this} to my friends/family when they ask, “How did you do?????” {each time they ask with such great enthusiasm} My answer generally is…it was a great day – I loved being here – the people were wonderful – the event was beautifully organized – but….my sales were a little disappointing. The bottom line is that when you have a cottage industry it’s nearly impossible to get paid for the time that’s involved. Yesterday began @ 5am – we did set-up, sales and tear-down in the same day – I was quite blessed to have my niece, Lindsey, there to help me. Because I live about 2½ hours away from the event I pulled in @ home @ about 11:30 last night. I was so tired I couldn’t even talk – I went straight to bed. Luckily, on my drive home I had sunflower seeds, black licorice & coffee working their magic to keep me awake.

Oh, can I add here that it was a 95°.

Crazy as it sounds…I love what I do!

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Elaine, you amaze me with your up-beat attitude, even with
95 degree weather, the long drive and having to eat black licorice to get home. Love you lots–keep up the love you have for what you are doing.

Oh Elaine!! What fun pictures!! Yes that must be soo much work, but not only do you love it (and are super duper good at it) it keeps you alive, vibrant and young. I promise I won’t ask you again about sales:) and keep it up girl..I love living vicariously through you:)